Anigothanthos flavidus
The native western Australian plant, "Kangaroo Paws," ( Anigothanthos) seem to be everywhere these days. I see the evergreen, dark green clumps with striking tubular flowers in red, purple, green, orange and yellow displayed in pots, in garden beds and used in all kinds of landscape designs from tropical to contemporary. Kangaroo Paws are in my ...
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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to plants, pruning on 2007-11-24, 00:37:05
19 degrees here on the hill this morning, a noticeable difference to yesterday's heavy rains and low forties temperatures. By 4:30 PM when folks were tossing back and forth in soft chairs fending off post dinner sleepiness, the temperature outside began to drop and as it did, Vermont Flower Farm and much of the east was enveloped in deepening fog. Right now fluffy snowflakes drift slowly to earth on a fairly clear morning. Deer hunters have been driving by for more than an hour now trying to get courage enough to park and advance into the woods for one of the last days of this year's rifle deer season. It will be cold and crunchy out there and the footing will be uneasy much of the way as a glaze has formed on the snow from last night's quick freeze. . . .
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Posted by George Africa Reblogged by Old Roses to weather on 2007-11-24, 00:36:35
It’s fall in North Georgia, so that means it’s time to rake leaves. On the day after Thanksgiving, that seems like a good chore to me: burn a few calories after Thursday’s eating overkill, make the yard look better …...
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on Nov 23, 2007, 9:15AM
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My fellow Strawhatter, "A" and I share a love of gardening and cooking. We pooled our talents and recipes today.
You can find the menu for our feast on our blog, The Wooden Spoon. We will be posting the recipes, including A's Top Secret Apple Pie, in the coming days.
Enjoy!
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Posted by OldRoses Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs, recipes on 2007-11-24, 00:35:54
Variegated Japanese Pachysandra Pachysandra terminalis 'Variegata' (pak-ih-SAN-druh) (term-in-AL-iss) Synonyms: Japanese Spurge, Silver Edge Pachysandra
While cleaning up some leaves I was looking at my Silver Edge Pachysandra and wondered why more people don’t grow it. It is a great groundcover for brightening up shady areas and having something a little different. The one knock against it is that it grows slower than the species. . . .
So, about a 2 weeks ago I began digging in the green manure. Let me show you my progress.
From this angle it looks like one big bed but it is actually two beds and for some dedication to symmetry reason I'm digging along each bed at the same rate. It kind of helps me set goals. I work in the morning before school/work for about 1hour max. . . .
We have a new chook house. For the whole time we've been in the community garden we've had a mobile chicken house. It has been important to me that we move the house around so that the vegetables can benefit from the chicken manure. I also don't want the soil under the chicken house to become too intensely fertilised so the house only sits over the beds for about 4-6 months. . . .
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on Nov 22, 2007, 12:33AM
I have two cactus like plants. One is a Thanksgiving Cactus and the other is of the same species, Schlumbergera, and is known as a Christmas Cactus.
General care for plants of the Schlumbergera species is to give them moderate to bright light in the Spring and Summer months. Lighting depends upon exactly which species you own. I’ve found that these cactus can burn in direct bright sunlight so I generally put mine outside in the summer time in an area where they only get bright direct sunlight for a couple of hours. The rest of the lighting they receive is usually fairly bright but not direct. . .
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on Nov 23, 2007, 1:37AM
Posted by Tricia Reblogged by Old Roses to houseplants on 2007-11-24, 00:33:09
Paper whites, a small, pale Narcissus, are one of the easiest bulbs to force indoors. Were so used to seeing them in pots that we forget they also make wonderful...
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on Nov 22, 2007, 8:11PM
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Got chickens? Our neighbors do, and today they came for a visit.
I was outside by the trellis near the patio and I heard what at first I thought was Luna, with his quirky squeaky meow. I looked around for him and didn't see him, but when I heard the sound again, it didn't quite sound like Luna. So I did a better job of looking and there, not five feet away from me, strutting through the neighbor's hedge, were three chickens.
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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to birds on 2007-11-24, 00:32:04
All hail the mighty rutabaga !!! It is a vegetable only a mother could love. And yet I trot it out of the garden each Thanksgiving and insist it find its place at the table. To ME it is more Thanksgiving than the turkey itself. I remember when I proudly brought it to the table years ago when I introduced my French friend, Genevieve, to Thanksgiving. She tasted it and said, "This is what our parents were forced to eat during the War. Why serve it at such a special meal?" Well she never understood baseball when I explained it either ... and somehow even Art Buchwald's explanation of national holiday never really clicked. . . .
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Posted by Leslie Reblogged by Old Roses to rutabaga on 2007-11-24, 00:31:12
Photo by Stephen Helms by permission.
The Holiday season seems right after you put that last plate away for Thanksgiving dinner. If you are going to spend your green this season, then consider giving environmentally friendly gifts that will lessen your impact on the Earth. Who knows? These gifts may turn out to be some. . .
The compact book includes almost everything about lotus: cultivation, ornamental and other uses, cultural traditions, lore, guide for growers, and. . .
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on Nov 22, 2007, 8:40AM
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I don't like to admit that I've stalled or that my blog is becoming stale, but in my busyness of trying to complete my Garden Blog Directory updatedue to be released on 1 Dec, I sense that this ship is merely drifting. . . .
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on Nov 22, 2007, 4:18PM
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I got a late mum for the centerpiece of our Thanksgiving table. It is nice most of the family is here celebrating. To all the American readers out there Happy Thanksgiving and to everyone else Happy Thursday.
This was shot with the 50mm @ 1.8. I sure wish this mum came with a name tag!
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on Nov 22, 2007, 4:11PM
Here is the online link to this week's The List: Top Home & Garden Events on page 27 of today's print edition in the Washington Examiner.
Pictured here are a couple of the mum topiaries from the annual Chrysanthemum Society show in the conservatories at Brookside. This temporary display closes on Sunday, so get out there and see it in person asap.
I think that we have finally reached the end of our nice weather. It was wonderful while it lasted, but it is the end of November, and time for the cold weather to stay. This season sure went fast! Since this is my first year at blogging, it will be fun to look back to the Spring posts, now that it is cold, and relive those days, until they are finally back next Spring. . . .
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Posted by vonlafin Reblogged by Old Roses to garlic on 2007-11-24, 00:19:28
I've got five pounds of green beans taunting me because the family Thanksgiving "dinner" is at 2:oopm and I've only managed to eat breakfast and take a shower. Hey, at least I'm clean. Still need to hit myself with a pretty stick, though. . . .
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on Nov 22, 2007, 2:13PM
Posted by Angela Reblogged by Old Roses to beans, recipes on 2007-11-24, 00:18:02
I posted on November 11, about my Picasa account. I had reached approximately 70% of my storage space in seven months and had duplicates of many pictures on Picasa. Annie in Austin, graciously looked at my blog to try to figure out my problem. She saw that my pictures were about 80% larger in pixels than those on her blog. . . .
The Home Know-It-All is taking Thursday and Friday off from posting to celebrate turkey day with family and friends. Enjoy your holiday (and the Friday sales, of course). Then stay tuned—in coming weeks I’ll be posting on all sorts of fun stuff, from cleaning grout and fireplaces to decorating for the holidays.
The rear of my apartment overlooks a garden courtyard - apparently one of the largest and earliest built in Manhattan. The building itself is a historic landmark built by Rockefeller. There is in fact a gardening volunteer group that works in the garden during the summer months which I've considered joining but never did mainly because the prime activity is planting bright colored annuals that are not terribly well suited to that situation - in the shade of all the trees there. . . .
Two photos of the Christmas Cactus with the Red flower slowly unfurling. Usually I come back from being away to see it had already flowered, so im enjoying monitoring its progress. It has one other formed flower bud, but I hope it flowers more. It has travelled from Selby and flowered every year. This is the fourth year I think. It has also supplied some leaves for propogating another plant. . . .
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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to houseplants on 2007-11-24, 00:14:20
Grenada Pomegranate Tree - 2-3' (3 year Fruiting Size)
FlordaPrince Peach Tree - 3-4'
About $130 total. I like the fact that their shipping is straight-up 25% of the total order. I got small seedlings in case I decide to espalier these... I'm still waffling. . . .
via Bliss on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
